Bathos : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bathos	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Bathos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bathos n triteness or triviality of style insincere pathos Synonym(s): mawkishness, bathos a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one Synonym(s): anticlimax, bathos
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bathos \Ba"thos\, n. [Gr. [?] depth, fr. [?] deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.